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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. "The Dependents is a big book, one that grapples with important questions through generations...Dion's intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence." --Kate Walbert, National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women. After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was...
82) Hidden
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Jeff Manning is struck and killed in a car accident walking home the two women in his life are devastated: his wife, Claire and his co-worker, Trish. Both have to learn to deal with their grief in different ways.
84) Los llanos
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 658
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
A man reflects and writes about his fleeting encounters with the people who pass by his rural town and his own life experiences that led him there.
Author
Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Merope, the missing sister, is waiting to be told ... Following Georg Hoffman's revelation that he may have found The Missing Sister, Maia and Ally discover that all they have to go on is an address of a vineyard in New Zealand, plus a drawing of an unusual star-shaped emerald ring. Deciding that CeCe, who lives in Australia, is the closest, they send her to investigate with her partner, Chrissie. So begins a race against time to identify...
88) June: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Learning that she is the sole heir to the fortune of a legendary Hollywood movie star who claims her as his granddaughter, an astonished Cassie investigates the truth in her prim grandmother's past and discovers secrets involving blackmail, murder, betrayal and broken hearts.
Author
Series
Amish heirlooms volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After losing her beloved fiancé, Veronica Fisher takes solace in opening a bake stand to sell creations made from her mother's recipe, and soon, a regular visitor to her stand begins to gladden her heart.
91) The unpassing
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A Taiwanese immigrant family in rural Alaska is shattered by an outbreak of meningitis that ends the life of their daughter, leading the grieving father to commit a devastating fatal error that culminates in a profound revelation.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After leaving her young daughter unattended for a few minutes only to discover her gone, Ellis Abbey leaves her husband and sons, convinced that she can only do more harm to her family, and treks alone into the mountain wilderness.
95) Emory's gift
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
96) Hope Creek
Author
Series
New Americana volume 6
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Old rivalries, new ventures, and long-lost loves converge in the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey's New Americana series, as the daughter who once walked away from the dark chaos of her childhood returns to her Lowcountry hometown, hoping to put the past to rest... For Kit Teague, the island of Hope Creek, South Carolina, is filled with joyful memories of being out on the water with her beloved father. But her small...
97) A single man
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of his longtime lover, George must adjust to life on his own as a professor in Southern California in the early 1960s. During the course of an ordinary day, George is haunted by memories as he seeks connections with the world around him--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Exactly one year ago, Jane's oldest daughter, Mary, died in a tragic accident and Jane has been grief-stricken ever since. Lost in a haze of anti-depressants, she's barely even left the house. Now that's all about to change. It's time for Jane to reclaim her life and her family. Jane's husband, David, has planned a memorial service for Mary and three days later, their youngest daughter, Betsy, graduates high school.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
Author
Language
English
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"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazau Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
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